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This is a blog about edges.

I’ve always been drawn to them: borders, margins, liminal spaces; places where one thing is fading and another is becoming but yet, like Derrida’s trace, bear only the memory of the former and the possibility of the latter without being either one. Since I am enamored of both memory and possibility, I love exploring such spaces.

Since, by trade, I’m a scholar of the literature and culture of the Middle Ages, many–but by no means all–of the borders that interest me are medieval ones. But I’m also interested in exploring the borderlands between that medieval past and the present in which I live, and cultural borders I traverse every day as a scholar and teacher, a teacher and parent, an academic and a person of faith, a colleague and a friend.

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